Instead of being in New York on Saturday night and watching Jay Z perform songs like “So Ghetto” & “Can I Live”, I was stuck in an office building working and being a chump. But that’s okay, with the magic of the Internets, I was allowed to watch most of the first night Jigga’s B-Sides concerts.
Not only did Hov perform songs like “U Don’t Know”, “Jigga My Nigga”, & “Hovi Baby”, he was backed by by 1500 or Nuthin, Young Guru, & Just Blaze and even brought out special surprise guests Beanie Sigel, Jay Electronica, Jeezy, Freeway, Young Gunz, and (of course) Memphis Bleek.
But it wasn’t all older stuff, he also unleashed new freestyle that clapped back at all the detractors of his Tidal streaming music service. It was everything he should have said in those #TidalFacts tweets. Video, lyrics, and full show below.
So I’m the bad guy now I hear, because I don’t go with the flow
Don’t ever go with the flow, be the flow
And I don’t need no middle man to talk to my niggas
I understand if you don’t understand, I figure I’m Jigga
That’s where we differ
I take what’s mine, you accept what they they give you, I get you
I don’t take no cheques I take my respect
Pharrell even told me go with the safest bet
Jimmy Iovine on for the safety net
Google dig around a crazy cheque
I feel like Youtube is the biggest culprit
Them niggas pay you a tenth of what you supposed to get
You know niggas die for equal pay right?
You know when I work I ain’t your slave right?
You know I ain’t shucking and jiving and high fiving
You know this ain’t back in the days right?
But I can’t tell, like the way they killed Gray right
Shot down Mike Brown how they did Tray right?
Let me continue choking niggas
We gonna turn style
I ain’t your token nigga
You know I came in this game independent right?
Tidal, my own lane, same difference
Oh niggas is skeptical as their own shit
You bought 9 iPhones and Steve Jobs is rich
Phil Knight worth trillions you still bought those kicks
Spotify is 9 million they ain’t say shit
Lucy got some splaining to do
The only one they hating on look the same as you
I know they trying to bamboozle you
Spending millions on media trying to confuse you
I had to talk to myself, Hov you used to it
It’s politics as usual